Here is some intro info on zope products: http://www.zope.org/Members/maxm/HowTo/minimal_01 Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: Amanda A. To: zope@zope.org Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 8:54 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] newbie -- creating a Product Thanks, I will try the external method. However, what I was really hoping for was an explanation of the Product creation part -- if I can create and get this very simple Product to work, I can begin to understand this facet of Zope and make more complex Products. OK, forget the email attachment detail of my question. I am confused here: I have tried to create the product both from the ZMI (which does not allow the creation of __init__.py's) and via command line (in ~/Products, in lib/Python, everywhere that the sparse and conflicting information I have been able to gather tells me). Doing the latter I can certainly create the __init__.py but the Product doesn't register with zope. Thanks. On 11/6/06, Jonathan <dev101@magma.ca> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aidan" <mnstrmr@gmail.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 10:28 PM Subject: [Zope] newbie -- creating a Product > I'm a complete Zope novice. Forgive me if my question is inane. > > I need to be able to send an e-mail (following a form submit) with an > attachment > (and I prefer not to use DTML). I can send e-mails withOUT attachments, > but > according to this: > http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2005-May/159291.html > > I need to create > > > "a simple product like this: > > EmailTools/__init__.py > ------------------- contents --------------------------------- > from AccessControl import allow_module, allow_class, allow_type > from AccessControl import ModuleSecurityInfo, ClassSecurityInfo > > from email.MIMEText import MIMEText > from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart > from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase > from email.Header import Header > from MailCrypt import signmail > from email.Encoders import encode_base64 > > allow_class(BlockFormatter) > allow_class(MIMEBase) > allow_class(MIMEText) > allow_class(MIMEMultipart) > allow_class(Header) > allow_class(signmail) > allow_class(encode_base64) > --------------------------------------------------------------- > " > > > > This then will allow me to send attachments using > > from Products.EmailTools import > MIMEText,MIMEBase,MIMEMultipart,Header,encode_base64 > > in the python script. (Without the EmailTools product Zope tells me I am > not > allowed to import MIME*) > > > This is where my question comes in. I have tried to create the product > both from > the ZMI (which does not allow the creation of __init__.py's) and via > command > line (in ~/Products, in lib/Python, everywhere that the sparse and > conflicting > information I have been able to gather tells me). Doing the latter I can > certainly create the __init__.py but the Product doesn't register with > zope. > > > Could someone give a quick walk-through (or point to an up-to-date source) > on > how to create this Product? > > (I am running Zope 2.8.6-final, python 2.4.3 , linux2) For a single task like you have described it may be easier to create a simple external method. Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )